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Measurement of Open Heavy Flavor Production with Single Muons in p+p and d+Au Collisions at RHIC
Heavy flavor production in hadronic collisions is dominated by gluonic
processes and so is a sensitive probe of the gluon structure function in the
nucleon and its modification in nuclei. A study of heavy flavor production in
p+p and d+Au collisions in various kinematic regions presents an opportunity to
probe cold nuclear medium effects; parton shadowing, color glass condensate,
initial state energy loss, and coherent multiple scattering in final state
interactions. The PHENIX muon arms cover both forward and backward directions
in the rapidity range of . We investigate single muon
production from open heavy flavor and light mesons decay in p+p and d+Au
collisions at forward and backward rapidity.Comment: Strangeness in Quark Matter, 2006, UCL
Towards Distributed Convoy Pattern Mining
Mining movement data to reveal interesting behavioral patterns has gained
attention in recent years. One such pattern is the convoy pattern which
consists of at least m objects moving together for at least k consecutive time
instants where m and k are user-defined parameters. Existing algorithms for
detecting convoy patterns, however do not scale to real-life dataset sizes.
Therefore a distributed algorithm for convoy mining is inevitable. In this
paper, we discuss the problem of convoy mining and analyze different data
partitioning strategies to pave the way for a generic distributed convoy
pattern mining algorithm.Comment: SIGSPATIAL'15 November 03-06, 2015, Bellevue, WA, US
Initial-boundary value problems for conservation laws with source terms and the Degasperis-Procesi equation
We consider conservation laws with source terms in a bounded domain with
Dirichlet boundary conditions. We first prove the existence of a strong trace
at the boundary in order to provide a simple formulation of the entropy
boundary condition. Equipped with this formulation, we go on to establish the
well-posedness of entropy solutions to the initial-boundary value problem. The
proof utilizes the kinetic formulation and the compensated compactness method.
Finally, we make use of these results to demonstrate the well-posedness in a
class of discontinuous solutions to the initial-boundary value problem for the
Degasperis-Procesi shallow water equation, which is a third order nonlinear
dispersive equation that can be rewritten in the form of a nonlinear
conservation law with a nonlocal source term.Comment: 24 page
Relation between Kitaev magnetism and structure in -RuCl
Raman scattering has been employed to investigate lattice and magnetic
excitations of the honeycomb Kitaev material -RuCl and its
Heisenberg counterpart CrCl. Our phonon Raman spectra give evidence for a
first-order structural transition from a monoclinic to a rhombohedral structure
for both compounds. Significantly, only -RuCl features a large
thermal hysteresis, consistent with the formation of a wide phase of
coexistence. In the related temperature interval of K, we observe a
hysteretic behavior of magnetic excitations as well. The stronger magnetic
response in the rhombohedral compared to the monoclinic phase evidences a
coupling between the crystallographic structure and low-energy magnetic
response. Our results demonstrate that the Kitaev magnetism concomitant with
fractionalized excitations is susceptible to small variations of bonding
geometry.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures, To appear in PR
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